Disparate impact. Laws that result in disproportionate punishments to some races over other races are wrong, and attract a great deal of negative criticism in America. Good idea but it would never fly.
Because there are people out there in the world you aren't like you? Plenty of men find great satisfaction in sports which require full contact. They like hitting and don't mind being hit. Please broaden your horizons before posting such closed-minded nonsense in the future. Thanks!
Wow, way to totally ignore the fact that, yes, unions are totally corrupt. Way to use the tired, outdated Archie Bunker stereotype, too - you, as an educated person, DO know he was written by a radical leftist who was deliberately trying to make him look bad?
Deal with union corruption, you'd have a lot more credibility if you admitted your weaknesses. But no, it must not exist because its existence weakens your argument. Take your pro-union rhetoric and toss it back on campus where it belongs. The real world is much more complex than the simple cliches you've trotted out.
Racist. Imperialist. Black people can't run their own countries, so the Americans have to step in and do it for them. Yeah, that worked out SO well for you in Somalia, yeah?
Every man is sexist. Whenever he opens his mouth, he's sexist. Don't believe me? Ask any male feminist, he'll tell you. You can't NOT be sexist as a man. Sexism is a 0 or 1 thing, there aren't varying degrees of it. It's like being pregnant, you can't be a little bit sexist.
It seems incredible that in the 21st century schools are still teaching children to scratch marks on paper.
It seems incredible? Hello, what sort of bizarro world does this come from? I know that handwriting is becoming less important, but WTF is this? Treating it as some sort of Amazon rainforest tribe barbarity?
But it's mind boggling how many things went utterly right before one thing went wrong.
Yes, it's time to talk about what we can do to prevent another #shirtstorm. It doesn't matter how "right" the science is if scientists themselves can't police their own.
Because it goes into a hard vaccum, and is fully exposed to the solar wind, ionizing radiation, and all sorts of other radical environmental effects that do a great job at denaturing life?
Uh, I thought we had established that all the stormtroopers were clones of Jango Fett. The trailer clearly shows that they don't give a shit about continuity and are going to do whatever they damn well feel like. But leave it to leftists to immediately assume that everyone other than themselves are racists.
"Man as such does not exist. There are only men belonging to this or that race."
-- Walter Gross, head of the German Office of Racial Purity, 1936
We have always been friends with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia. Gerrymandering is bad when it works against us. When it works for us (constructing voting districts so that black men will win [because we all know that blacks will always vote for candidates that match their own skin color]) then it's good. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
You really need to get out more, and mingle with people who incorporate a diversity of viewpoints. One thing I've found about environmental extremists is that they tend to ostracise anyone who doesn't share their radical views and thus tend to think that the rest of humanity thinks like they do. Go friend one on Facebook and then publically disagree with what she says if you are in denial.
It also turns out that Joseph McCarthy was right - there really were Communists in the State Department. And they really were using their influential position to attempt to overthrow the US government. The More You Know! (shooting star)
To heck with the local charges - why the hell hasn't Holder's Justice Department filed federal civil rights charges against the officer? They're rabidly on the side of SJWs. Think about it for a moment. If the facts were there, do you really think the JD would be sitting on the sidelines while some local grand jury no-bills the case?
I hear ya buddy. We've got a President who doesn't want to do things democratically and we had a major, society-altering law passed whose authors have nothing but contempt for us, the American people. It doesn't look like it's going to get better anytime soon, either. These contemptuous attitudes are deeply ingrained in our elites and our universities do nothing but promote bitter divisiveness. I'm glad you've done well in such an oppressive society.
MLK also said to judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
There are a hell of a lot of New Yorkers of shockingly low character. Bringing a foreign country's culture into the argument doesn't change anything and is just a lazy attempt at guilt by association. Guilt by association is a logical fallacy and educated people should know better.
This form of the argument is as follows:
Source S makes claim C.
Group G, which is currently viewed negatively by the recipient, also makes claim C.
Therefore, source S is viewed by the recipient of the claim as associated to the group G and inherits how negatively viewed it is.
An example of this fallacy would be "My opponent for office just received an endorsement from the Puppy Haters Association. Is that the sort of person you would want to vote for?"
First of all, your dig at the Nobel Peace Prize is racist, you just can't stand that a black man won it in 2009 and you'll go to any length to criticize him.
Second, that pro-capitalist bullshit is a bunch of bullshit, stop cheerleading for Danone and other multinational corporations. The sooner they are driven out of business, the better.
Third, the whole "money-lender" thing is anti-Semitic, and this is the nail in the coffin of your whole gestalt. Yeah, you didn't actually say "Jews" but then again you didn't need to, you made it quite clear. Please stop speaking in public.
"It left China with either letting go of censorship, or breaking significant chunks of the Internet for their population."
I love the tiny minds at work here. People who cannot see outside of themselves, nor consider any perspective but their own Western one. As if there were any choice involved! China doesn't block websites because they're evil, they block websites because they are damaging to China's body politic. These overseas actors want to harm China, and like antibodies reacting to bacteria, China's government reacts to block the damage. You can cry censorship all you want, but the fact remains that it's for China's own good that these actions are taken.
I remind everyone that the Chinese Communist Party is made up of the smartest people in China. It is full of scientists and engineers, people with analytical minds, and people who are qualified to make decisions for others. If Slashdot were based in China, the most thoughtful constantly-modded-up users would be mostly CCP members. Think of John Gruber, the MIT economist who helped get the badly needed Affordable Care Act passed despite opposition from lesser minds. There is nothing particularly scandalous about what he did. The seriousness of the deception depends on the extent of the harm done. Getting healthcare for millions of uninsured is the same as China's blocking these harmful websites. A little harm is done, mostly to people who intend harm in the first place, and much good is done to people who badly need it. It is a Faustian bargain, but it is worth it. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
The Western mindset that censorship is automatically bad is outdated and unsuitable for 2014 and beyond. We need to just relax and let the smart people do their thing. We're better off with them in charge rather than the mob. If you disagree, then say so - but don't doubt China's justification for its own point of view, which I doubt anyone, especially those in this "freedumb center", has even taken a moment to think over.
If you don't have any customers in China (like 6/7 of the world) then you lose nothing by banning Chinese internet. Hell, I used to run a site inside China and I had to ban.ru addresses because I got nothing but spam from them.
So, Google has hit upon an idea to further deplete our already-scarce helium reserves. Bravo. When are we going to stop letting dickheads with money squander global resources and start centrally allocating on basis of need instead? Fucking mega-corporations.
Google doesn't have a monopoly on search. Not even close. The only reason they get used is because they're the best. The second that they start sucking, people will leave in droves. It's pretty fucking far from tyranny when any user can go elsewhere. That's not a monopoly.
For someone supposedly so imaginative, you sure jump to conclusions. You really can't see any other perspective than your own? That's so sad that you live in such a tiny world. I feel sad for you.
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Disparate impact. Laws that result in disproportionate punishments to some races over other races are wrong, and attract a great deal of negative criticism in America. Good idea but it would never fly.
Because there are people out there in the world you aren't like you? Plenty of men find great satisfaction in sports which require full contact. They like hitting and don't mind being hit. Please broaden your horizons before posting such closed-minded nonsense in the future. Thanks!
Wow, way to totally ignore the fact that, yes, unions are totally corrupt. Way to use the tired, outdated Archie Bunker stereotype, too - you, as an educated person, DO know he was written by a radical leftist who was deliberately trying to make him look bad?
Deal with union corruption, you'd have a lot more credibility if you admitted your weaknesses. But no, it must not exist because its existence weakens your argument. Take your pro-union rhetoric and toss it back on campus where it belongs. The real world is much more complex than the simple cliches you've trotted out.
Racist. Imperialist. Black people can't run their own countries, so the Americans have to step in and do it for them. Yeah, that worked out SO well for you in Somalia, yeah?
Every man is sexist. Whenever he opens his mouth, he's sexist. Don't believe me? Ask any male feminist, he'll tell you. You can't NOT be sexist as a man. Sexism is a 0 or 1 thing, there aren't varying degrees of it. It's like being pregnant, you can't be a little bit sexist.
It seems incredible that in the 21st century schools are still teaching children to scratch marks on paper.
It seems incredible? Hello, what sort of bizarro world does this come from? I know that handwriting is becoming less important, but WTF is this? Treating it as some sort of Amazon rainforest tribe barbarity?
But it's mind boggling how many things went utterly right before one thing went wrong.
Yes, it's time to talk about what we can do to prevent another #shirtstorm. It doesn't matter how "right" the science is if scientists themselves can't police their own.
Because it goes into a hard vaccum, and is fully exposed to the solar wind, ionizing radiation, and all sorts of other radical environmental effects that do a great job at denaturing life?
Uh, I thought we had established that all the stormtroopers were clones of Jango Fett. The trailer clearly shows that they don't give a shit about continuity and are going to do whatever they damn well feel like. But leave it to leftists to immediately assume that everyone other than themselves are racists.
"Man as such does not exist. There are only men belonging to this or that race."
-- Walter Gross, head of the German Office of Racial Purity, 1936
We have always been friends with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia. Gerrymandering is bad when it works against us. When it works for us (constructing voting districts so that black men will win [because we all know that blacks will always vote for candidates that match their own skin color]) then it's good. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
You really need to get out more, and mingle with people who incorporate a diversity of viewpoints. One thing I've found about environmental extremists is that they tend to ostracise anyone who doesn't share their radical views and thus tend to think that the rest of humanity thinks like they do. Go friend one on Facebook and then publically disagree with what she says if you are in denial.
It also turns out that Joseph McCarthy was right - there really were Communists in the State Department. And they really were using their influential position to attempt to overthrow the US government. The More You Know! (shooting star)
Great post about Ebola. Wait, you didn't talk about Ebola at all, you just tried to show how USA = TEH COMMUNISM!!!@#!@$%##$#!@# OMGZLOLZOR.
Did you just call black people filthy? WTF? Modded up to +4 Funny? Your pointy hat is showing there, Mr. Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan.
To heck with the local charges - why the hell hasn't Holder's Justice Department filed federal civil rights charges against the officer? They're rabidly on the side of SJWs. Think about it for a moment. If the facts were there, do you really think the JD would be sitting on the sidelines while some local grand jury no-bills the case?
I hear ya buddy. We've got a President who doesn't want to do things democratically and we had a major, society-altering law passed whose authors have nothing but contempt for us, the American people. It doesn't look like it's going to get better anytime soon, either. These contemptuous attitudes are deeply ingrained in our elites and our universities do nothing but promote bitter divisiveness. I'm glad you've done well in such an oppressive society.
MLK also said to judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
There are a hell of a lot of New Yorkers of shockingly low character. Bringing a foreign country's culture into the argument doesn't change anything and is just a lazy attempt at guilt by association. Guilt by association is a logical fallacy and educated people should know better.
This form of the argument is as follows:
An example of this fallacy would be "My opponent for office just received an endorsement from the Puppy Haters Association. Is that the sort of person you would want to vote for?"
Q: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line incredibly irritating?
First of all, your dig at the Nobel Peace Prize is racist, you just can't stand that a black man won it in 2009 and you'll go to any length to criticize him.
Second, that pro-capitalist bullshit is a bunch of bullshit, stop cheerleading for Danone and other multinational corporations. The sooner they are driven out of business, the better.
Third, the whole "money-lender" thing is anti-Semitic, and this is the nail in the coffin of your whole gestalt. Yeah, you didn't actually say "Jews" but then again you didn't need to, you made it quite clear. Please stop speaking in public.
"It left China with either letting go of censorship, or breaking significant chunks of the Internet for their population."
I love the tiny minds at work here. People who cannot see outside of themselves, nor consider any perspective but their own Western one. As if there were any choice involved! China doesn't block websites because they're evil, they block websites because they are damaging to China's body politic. These overseas actors want to harm China, and like antibodies reacting to bacteria, China's government reacts to block the damage. You can cry censorship all you want, but the fact remains that it's for China's own good that these actions are taken.
I remind everyone that the Chinese Communist Party is made up of the smartest people in China. It is full of scientists and engineers, people with analytical minds, and people who are qualified to make decisions for others. If Slashdot were based in China, the most thoughtful constantly-modded-up users would be mostly CCP members. Think of John Gruber, the MIT economist who helped get the badly needed Affordable Care Act passed despite opposition from lesser minds. There is nothing particularly scandalous about what he did. The seriousness of the deception depends on the extent of the harm done. Getting healthcare for millions of uninsured is the same as China's blocking these harmful websites. A little harm is done, mostly to people who intend harm in the first place, and much good is done to people who badly need it. It is a Faustian bargain, but it is worth it. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
The Western mindset that censorship is automatically bad is outdated and unsuitable for 2014 and beyond. We need to just relax and let the smart people do their thing. We're better off with them in charge rather than the mob. If you disagree, then say so - but don't doubt China's justification for its own point of view, which I doubt anyone, especially those in this "freedumb center", has even taken a moment to think over.
If you don't have any customers in China (like 6/7 of the world) then you lose nothing by banning Chinese internet. Hell, I used to run a site inside China and I had to ban .ru addresses because I got nothing but spam from them.
So, Google has hit upon an idea to further deplete our already-scarce helium reserves. Bravo. When are we going to stop letting dickheads with money squander global resources and start centrally allocating on basis of need instead? Fucking mega-corporations.
Google doesn't have a monopoly on search. Not even close. The only reason they get used is because they're the best. The second that they start sucking, people will leave in droves. It's pretty fucking far from tyranny when any user can go elsewhere. That's not a monopoly.
For someone supposedly so imaginative, you sure jump to conclusions. You really can't see any other perspective than your own? That's so sad that you live in such a tiny world. I feel sad for you.
Criticizing Sheila Jackson Lee is racist. You're a racist, and this makes everything you say invalid.